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Show 1 CREPE OR FLOWERS AT ! PENROSE BIER; Former Senator's Wishes for Absolute Simplicity Carried Out PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 2 Arrangements Ar-rangements for the funeral of Senator Penrose were still incomplete today 1' waa decided, however, that It should ho strictly private in accordance with his officially expressed wish In making this announcement Leighton C Taylor, for' many years the senator's private secretary, sahl that only members of the family ancl friends would attend 'he services and that a congressional delegation probably prob-ably would not come here for the burial. The date for burial would be fixed. Mr. Tax lor said, after hearing from relatives In the west. .Meanwhile the body of the former senator, encaaed in a metallic coffin, covered with purple cloth, lay in his bachelor home here. No crepe or flowers marked the presence of dealh In tho old-fashioned brick house where from a sick bed ho had conferred con-ferred by telephone with the national Republican leaders at the Chicago i onvt tltion which nominated President Harding. Every wish of the senator for simplicity sim-plicity was respected. Expressions of regret at his death continued to pour In today from all sections Of the country. None of thorn was made public by his relatives. Governor Sproule said he had not decided "n Senator Penrose's successor. succes-sor. Under the law the governor Is empowered to make an appointment to fill the vacancy until the next general gen-eral election which, will be held in November. I WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Members I of the senate finance committee, of 'which the late Senator Penrose was, chairman, met informally today wit hi (the expectation lhav. all members of ithe committee wou'd go to Philadelphia Philadel-phia for the funeral. Th' expressed! jwlsh of the late senator's family that ithc funeral private, had been communicated, com-municated, however, to Senator Mc-Cumber Mc-Cumber of North Dakota, the ranking Republican member, and tho commit- I fi I 1 1' I i.ne dei bled to take no lie- Ition It did determine, however, that several of its meipbero would draft the resolutions which are to be submitted sub-mitted to the senatfl when It convenes tomorrow . I The plan of sexiivte leaders for to-: to-: morrow Is that the senate meet and adopt resolutions w'th respect to thfl memory ot its late member and adjourn ad-journ to the following day |